U-boat

Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire, President Woodrow Wilson of the United States had to decide upon the nation’s involvement in WWI. Wilson’s initial US neutrality policy was soon diverted after the German U-boat attacks on the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania, killing many Americans. Less than two years later, Great Britain intercepts a telegram from Germany to Mexico which offers Mexico US territory if Mexico joins Germany. The direct threat on the…

Proposed Functional Concept for Sittwe City, Rakhine State, Myanmar Abstract: Sittwe city, estuarial island, capital of Rakhine State, Western part of Myanmar, is located on the confluence of Kaladan River and Bay of Bengal. It is also the main trading center of the Rakhine state as this city is a port city. And there are many historical places to conserve and several places of attraction. Nowadays, port of Sittwe city has been promoted as Kaladan Multi-modal Transport Project which would…

From the mid 1800’s to the early 1900’s, many nations were trying to expand their influence across the globe. Seeing how Europe and Japan had success with acquiring new colonies, The United States started withdrawing from isolationism and began to consider the benefits of imperialism, a policy by which strong nations extend their political, military, and economic control over weaker territories. Industrialists wanted raw materials for industries in their home countries and entrepreneurs wanted…

of the German navy. The amount of attack soldiers was unlimited and the German navy land team could not fight against them. So Germany allowed the US to enter the deep inland including conquered places in France. Additionally, on the sea, German U-boats were hunted by the US navy (16). The air battle of England was difficult too. Raider was invented by English scientists and the British army used raider to hunt German aircrafts. Of course, German Air force threw plenty of bombs on London and…

Introduction “Selma,” I think while meaning well, is another piece of counter revolutionary, ruling class propaganda. It is like a “how not to manual” in how not to make revolution, then and now. I was an activist in the days in question in this movie and all the thousands of revolutionary voices that were raised, back in the day, are more thoroughly crushed in this film than all the might of U.S. imperialist military, police, intelligence and public opinion creating machines…

was an effective offensive tactic, because it was stealthy, 200-250 feet below the surface, and thus hard to detect. However useful the submarines may have been, nothing justifies the unethical ways in which they were deployed. Often, the German U-boats targeted supply ships, passenger liners, and non-combat even from neutral countries. Thomas Marie Madawaska Hemy, a famous painter, depicts the most famous tragedy when the Germans sank British passenger liner Lusitania, killing British and…

World War I had several different contributing factors leading up to its creation. There was the idea that a particular nation was better than all the others. This idea is known as Nationalism. There were also countries that wanted to expand their reach and take over other countries in order to secure cheap labor and access to resources that they would normally not have access to. This concept was known as Imperialism. Countries also wanted to show that they had a strong military present and…

This source is an interview with Mrs M in 1999 by W. Ugolini. This source was part of a collection of interviews for ‘Memory, war and the Italians in Edinburgh: the role of communal myth.’ Mrs M, an Italian living in Edinburgh describes the anti-Italian sentiment and riots when Mussolini, dictator of Italy declared war on Britain and France on 10th of June 1940. This source was written 59 years after the events took place as a result the details could possibly be blurred with the passing of time…

On September 1, 1939, WWII began after Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles by invading Poland as Adolf Hitler wanted to reclaim Poland land for the German people, since it once belonged to Germany prior to WWI. Within a matter of days, Great Britain responded by bombing Germany for their invasion of Poland. Over the course of the war Germany, Japan, and Italy had become axis to Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. Although the war began on September 1, 1939, the U.S. did not…

Close to Shore by Michael Capuzzo is a novel explaining the vicious shark attacks along the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1916. New Jersey had just become popular for its upscale beachfront and the availability to swim along the beach as well. This perfect beach scene was too good to be true and New Jersey then experienced the first shark attacks to ever be documented in history. Michael Capuzzo explains the five shark attacks along the Jersey Shore and the mass hysteria then ensues after it.…